Martín Demichelis

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Martín Demichelis
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Demichelis as a player in Malaga CF, 2012
Personnel
Surname Martín Gastón Demichelis
birthday 20th December 1980
place of birth Justiniano Posse ,  Argentina
size 184 cm
position Central defense
Defensive midfield
Juniors
Years station
0000-1995 Complejo Deportivo
1995-1998 Club Renato Cesarini
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2003 CA River Plate 52 0(1)
2003-2010 FC Bayern Munich 174 (13)
2004 FC Bayern Munich Amat. 1 0(0)
2011-2013 Málaga CF 84 0(7)
2013 Atlético Madrid 0 0(0)
2013-2016 Manchester City 78 0(3)
2016-2017 Espanyol Barcelona 2 0(0)
2017 Málaga CF 10 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2005-2017 Argentina 51 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2019– FC Bayern Munich U19
1 Only league games are given.

Martín Gastón Demichelis (born December 20, 1980 in Justiniano Posse ) is a former Argentine football player and current coach . He has been the coach of the FC Bayern Munich U19 team since the 2019/20 season .

Career

societies

Demichelis began his football career at Complejo Deportivo and moved in 1995 to Club Renato Cesarini Rosario , for which he was active for three seasons. He became a professional footballer when he moved to Argentina's top club River Plate Buenos Aires in 1998 and played for them until 2003. With River Plate Demichelis won the national championship in 2002 and 2003 .

FC Bayern

In 2003, FC Bayern Munich secured the Argentine's services for around 4.5 million euros. He made his competitive debut for the Reds in the first round of the DFB Cup on August 30, 2003 in a 5-0 away win against Borussia Neunkirchen . Demichelis had to wait until the 7th matchday in 2003/04 for his first Bundesliga appearance. At the away game in Rostock he was in the Munich starting line-up on September 27, 2003, where he played in defensive midfield in front of the back four. Demichelis scored his first goal for Bayern on December 16, 2003 in the away game at SC Freiburg . He initiated the 6-0 victory with his header to make it 1-0.

In the second half of the season it was quieter for the Argentine. Between the 18th and 34th matchday the defensive player only made six appearances. He was changed three times and three times. The reasons were that in central defense with Samuel Kuffour , Thomas Linke and Robert Kovač , three defenses were already fighting for two starting positions and the defensive midfield was well equipped with Owen Hargreaves , Jens Jeremies and Michael Ballack . For a short time, coach Ottmar Hitzfeld sent him to the Bayern amateurs, for whom he played a game. He won his first title with Bayern Munich in 2004 because they qualified second for the DFB League Cup and defeated Werder Bremen 3-2 in the final .

Demichelis played regularly in the 2004/05 , 2005/06 and 2006/07 seasons. The then trainer Felix Magath mainly used him in defensive midfield. It was not until the 2007/08 season that Hitzfeld ordered him into central defense, where he was the central defender trio together with Lúcio and Daniel Van Buyten . However, Demichelis caused a scandal when he publicly complained at a press conference that he was temporarily not in his preferred position in defense again even under Hitzfeld and refused to continue playing in defensive midfield, whereupon he was briefly released by Hitzfeld was suspended.

In 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2010 the club won the German championship and the DFB-Pokal . Demichelis was in the Munich starting line-up in all four final games for the cup. Also in the final of the Champions League on May 22, 2010, which was lost 2-0 to Inter Milan , he was part of the starting line-up. Before the first game of the 2010/11 season against VfL Wolfsburg , he was struck by coach Louis van Gaal from this; then he declined to sit on the substitutes' bench.

Málaga CF

Demichelis in the Manchester City shirt

Dissatisfied with his reservist role at Bayern Munich, Demichelis moved to FC Málaga on January 1, 2011 , after both clubs had agreed on the transfer before the end of the year; The parties have agreed not to disclose the terms of the transfer. Demichelis played his first game for the Spanish first division on January 8, 2011 in a 1-1 draw at home against Athletic Bilbao , in which he also scored his first goal with the 1-0 goal.

Via Madrid to Manchester City

After declining the contract extension he had been offered, Demichelis moved in July 2013 to league rivals Atlético Madrid , where he received a one-year contract. Without having played a competitive game for Atlético, he was signed by the English first division club Manchester City just two months later and given a contract that ran until June 30, 2015. In March 2015, the term of his contract was extended by one year; after the end of the contract he left the association.

Demichelis played a total of 91 competitive games for Manchester City in three years and became English champions with the club in the 2013/14 season .

Barcelona and return to Málaga

For the 2016/17 season , the Spanish first division club Espanyol Barcelona signed him until the end of the season. After two league appearances for Espanyol Barcelona, ​​the contract was terminated early in January 2017.

Demichelis then moved back to FC Málaga and signed a contract there until the end of the season. On May 15, 2017, he announced his end of career after the season.

National team

Demichelis in the 2014 World Cup final at Mario Götze's winning goal

For the Confederations Cup 2005 he was appointed by national coach José Pekerman in the squad of the national team, but did not play a single game during the tournament.

Despite several appearances in friendly matches , he was not nominated on May 15, 2006 by Pekerman for the Argentine squad at the 2006 World Cup in Germany. After the resignation of Roberto Ayala he was under coach Alfio Basile but part of the team again; the media response was positive.

In 2008 he was nominated for the squad for the 2008 Olympic Football Tournament in Beijing. However, since FC Bayern Munich did not release him, he voluntarily decided not to participate. During the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , he was used in all five games. In the third group match , the 2: 0 win over the selection of Greece , he scored the headed opening goal in the 78th minute. Demichelis took part in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. He was only used there from the quarterfinals. From this game against Belgium he was always in the starting line-up - including in the final, which Argentina lost 1-0.

2015 he took with the national team at the Copa America in part, came in the last group match at the 1: 0 win over the choice of Jamaica , the 6: 1 victory in the semifinals against the selection of Paraguay and in the final against the selection of Chile used the was lost with 1: 4 on penalties .

Coaching career

For the 2019/20 season, Demichelis was signed by FC Bayern as coach of the U19 youth team . He became the successor of Sebastian Hoeneß , who then looked after the amateurs and moved to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in July 2020 , where he became head coach.

successes

With River Plate

With Bayern Munich

With Manchester City

With Argentina

Individually

Web links

Commons : Martín Demichelis  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ spiegel.de: Hitzfeld suspends Demichelis (March 14, 2008)
  2. ↑ sport1.de: Demichelis causes a scandal (August 20, 2010)
  3. ↑ Demichelis moves to Málaga
  4. ↑ Press release on fifa.com.
  5. ^ Martin Demichelis has joined City from Atletico Madrid. on mcfc.co.uk, accessed September 1, 2013.
  6. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/31850089
  7. ↑ Press release ( memento of July 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on mancity.com.
  8. ↑ Press release on rcdespanyol.com. (English)
  9. ↑ Rescissió de contracte de Demichelis (Catalan) on rcdespanyol.com
  10. ↑ Málaga CF : Demichelis reinforces Málaga CF defense (English), accessed on January 17, 2017
  11. ↑ Malaga FC: Ex-Bayern star Martin Demichelis declares the end of his career . In: Fussball.com . May 15, 2017 ( fussball.com [accessed May 16, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Argentina without Demichelis to Beijing , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 3, 2008, accessed on July 15, 2018
  13. ↑ Martin Demichelis takes over U19, Klose remains U17 coach. June 27, 2019, accessed June 27, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Sebastian Hoeneß new head coach at TSG Hoffenheim , tsg-hoffenheim.de, accessed on August 17, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Demichelis, Martín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demichelis, Martín Gastón (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th December 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Justiniano Posse , Cordoba Province (Argentina) , Argentina